Technical Question for LibreOffice Users.

[OddLove]

I have a 10 part series that needs lots of editing and re-writing because I started it before I knew things like to/too and then/than, so I'm in the process of copying and pasting all the originals from Literotica to my word processer, LibreOffice.

The problem is. When I copy and paste a page from Lit to Libre, there's no spaces between the paragraphs and then I have to go manually click the end of each paragraph and press Enter to add a space. It's fine for the first three parts cause they're only about 5 to 10k word stories. But after the introduction parts, 3 to 10 are about 30k words, so it's a long grueling process to add all the spaces between the paragraphs.

Does anyone know how to either copy and paste my story into LibreOffice with all the spaces still between the paragraphs? Or maybe a way to add the spaces back in a less tedious and time consuming way?

 

[Kumquatqueen]

I have a 10 part series that needs lots of editing and re-writing because I started it before I knew things like to/too and then/than, so I'm in the process of copying and pasting all the originals from Literotica to my word processer, LibreOffice.

The problem is. When I copy and paste a page from Lit to Libre, there's no spaces between the paragraphs and then I have to go manually click the end of each paragraph and press Enter to add a space. It's fine for the first three parts cause they're only about 5 to 10k word stories. But after the introduction parts, 3 to 10 are about 30k words, so it's a long grueling process to add all the spaces between the paragraphs.

Does anyone know how to either copy and paste my story into LibreOffice with all the spaces still between the paragraphs? Or maybe a way to add the spaces back in a less tedious and time consuming way?

Is there a drop-down menu on the Paste button? In Word you can go to Paste Special and one option keeps a lot more formatting.

Failing that, switch on the formatting characters (Ctrl-F10), and do a Find and Replace, one carriage return for two.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

Failing that, switch on the formatting characters (Ctrl-F10), and do a Find and Replace, one carriage return for two.

In MS Word, the command would be:

"Find" ^p
"Replace" ^p^p

You might want to try that in LibreOffice since it emulates a lot of MS Word commands

 

[OddLove]

Is there a drop-down menu on the Paste button? In Word you can go to Paste Special and one option keeps a lot more formatting.

Failing that, switch on the formatting characters (Ctrl-F10), and do a Find and Replace, one carriage return for two.

When I used right click to paste instead of ctrl-*v there is a "Paste Special" with a drop-down menu that let me select "Unformatted Text" which included all the spaces between paragraphs.

Damn. Computer stuff feels so alien to me. So I really appreciate the help. I couldn't even figure out how to say my question short and precise enough to ask Google or YouTube.

 

[Seurat]

Haven't tried (too little time at the moment): got to view, turn on 'formatting marks'. go to top of document, place cursor. Copy th symbol for paragraph return, a little double line P. go to edit (top left) and find and replace. Paste single element in 'find', double paste element in the replace with. Hit return. As said, no time to check, but the logic is there.

 

[WaxPhilosophic]

You can edit the paragraph style and it will apply to all paragraphs using the style. (Click the Styles menu and select Edit Styles...) For example, Default Paragraph Style as shown in the screenshot below. The initial settings are no indents and no space above or below the paragraph. You can mess around with these settings to get the look you like without inserting an extra carriage return.

 

[BeechLeaf]

But that's more liable to be the visual effect inside LibreOffice. A hard double para, whether it's ^p or \n or pilcrow, is more likely to be useful for dropping back into the Lit submission screen.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

On the subject of LibreOffice, I'd edited my last story in it, then was emailing it to my phone for a final read before posting.

Only to find about a third of it had suddenly lost any paragraphs (no carriage returns at all). Any ideas what I might have inadvertently pressed for that to happen? Spent the next 20 min comparing with an old draft and putting all the paragraphs back in again, which was annoying, and I can't think of a quicker way to have done it (ctrl-Y for undo showed it wasn't something that happened just before c&p into the email).

 

[AStrangeDesire]

@OddLove I just tried this workflow.

I opened a story
Openend Libreoffice Writer (version 26.2.x)
Selected a page in the story, and hit Ctrl-v. Paragraphs looks normal, dividers are there, but spacing is too large, so would need to be changed.

Then I tried it again with Paste special and spacing looks correct, paragraphs and breaks look normal, as you found.

FYI: typically "Ctrl-Shift-V" will paste unformatted text.

 

[AStrangeDesire]

On the subject of LibreOffice, I'd edited my last story in it, then was emailing it to my phone for a final read before posting.

Only to find about a third of it had suddenly lost any paragraphs (no carriage returns at all). Any ideas what I might have inadvertently pressed for that to happen? Spent the next 20 min comparing with an old draft and putting all the paragraphs back in again, which was annoying, and I can't think of a quicker way to have done it (ctrl-Y for undo showed it wasn't something that happened just before c&p into the email).

What did you use on your phone to open it? Libre also?

I'm curious, because I never edit on my phone, it's too much of a pain for me, but I wonder what's screwing up your display

 

[OralAllOver]

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[OddLove]

You now have 3 (!) reasons to hire an assistant with beautiful bouncy boobs

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The problem is, if I can ever afford to hire pretty secretary, I wanna make sure I can do everything for her while she paints her finger nails and watches YouTube on her work computer, so I still need to learn all this.

 

[OddLove]

@OddLove I just tried this workflow.

I opened a story
Openend Libreoffice Writer (version 26.2.x)
Selected a page in the story, and hit Ctrl-v. Paragraphs looks normal, dividers are there, but spacing is too large, so would need to be changed.

Then I tried it again with Paste special and spacing looks correct, paragraphs and breaks look normal, as you found.

FYI: typically "Ctrl-Shift-V" will paste unformatted text.

I updated mine to 25.2 about a month ago, on Windows. And before that, I never had this issue. So perhaps it's this specific version that defaults into pasting text in some weird reformatted way. If I knew how to de-update it, I'd test it. But seems risky and I don't want to mess anything up.

NOTE: It also changed my pages background color to white, instead of the nice warm gray it used it have. Which is annoying AF.

 

[AStrangeDesire]

I updated mine to 25.2 about a month ago, on Windows. And before that, I never had this issue. So perhaps it's this specific version that defaults into pasting text in some weird reformatted way. If I knew how to de-update it, I'd test it. But seems risky and I don't want to mess anything up.

Well, 25.2 has been superseded. Time to upgrade to the 26 stream. Should be as simple as download the latest 26 version and install.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

On the subject of LibreOffice, I'd edited my last story in it, then was emailing it to my phone for a final read before posting.

Only to find about a third of it had suddenly lost any paragraphs (no carriage returns at all). Any ideas what I might have inadvertently pressed for that to happen? Spent the next 20 min comparing with an old draft and putting all the paragraphs back in again, which was annoying, and I can't think of a quicker way to have done it (ctrl-Y for undo showed it wasn't something that happened just before c&p into the email).

You emailed it as a file attachment, not by pasting the text into an email, right?

Is the original on your laptop(?) uncorrupted? If not, it has nothing to do with mailing.

 

[BeechLeaf]

Mm, are we going to blame it on e-mail or on LibreOffice? Difficult, difficult...

At one point a few years ago my office switched from Microsoft to a certain cheap, free clone. All my Basic scripts became useless and I could be heard screaming as I tried to work out the Libre equivalent of elementary operations.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

You emailed it as a file attachment, not by pasting the text into an email, right?

Is the original on your laptop(?) uncorrupted? If not, it has nothing to do with mailing.

It was when I pasted the text into the body of the email that I noticed the problem - and that the original LibreOffice doc had the problem too.

So no, I don't think we can blame Thunderbird for this one.